Here is the Importance Role Logistics Play in the Distribution Process

What You Need to Know About Logistics in the Distribution Process

Everytime you purchase any products, do you often worry about the shipment and its soaring fees? As a consumer, you would find it dreadful to be dispirited by ever changing cost of shipment.

If you felt such thing, now you could consider the importance of distribution factors have in maintaining a balanced supply from manufacturers to consumers. In the distribution process, logistics plays a significant role.

The term logistics has several meanings, such as procurement, maintenance, and products transportation to consumers. By and large, logistics refers to the process of transportation of goods or services, energy, and other natural resources from their sources to their users.

In the fast-paced digital era, the velocity and precision of goods distribution have become integral to people’s lifestyles, ensuring a balanced logistics experience. Once the distribution process is disrupted, the objectives of manufacturers or business seem pretty far-fetched.

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A reliable logistics management is essential to ensure timely shipping, to keep the quantity and quality of products intact, and to get the location accurately while minimizing costs.

Logistics activity includes transporting and warehousing products to temporary storages before distributing them to the nearest locations a consumer resides in.

The efficiency and accuracy are so important in this business that manufacturers and distributors must pay heed to challenges they bring. Manufacturers or consumers do not need all the products immediately, and yet the supply should be maintained exquisitely.

In doing so, chain supplies take time for products to be distributed from manufacturers to consumers, even though various transportation facilities back them up,  such as sea freight, air freight, inland trucking, trains, and intermodal freight transportations.

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Here is where manufacturers, distributors, and retailers need a logistics service provider that offers the logistics process's velocity and accuracy, plus cost efficiency.

Moreover, in this massive e-commerce era, the management of selling orders and shipping must be fast, precise, and affordable to win the competition in the marketplace.

To Choose the Best Logistics Service Provider is a Must

Generally, logistics service providers have utilized information and communication technology to ease the process, including Transportation Management System (TMS), Warehouse Management System (WMS), Fleet Management System (FMS), as well as order receipt and product shipping processes that are commonly known as Supply Chain Management (SCM).

But are they integrated and conducted under one roof so the velocity and precission of logistics and distribution processes could be efficient?

It is wise to choose a logistics service provider that also give warehousing services. Make sure that it provides one-stop services.

SELOG (Sera Logistic) is the answer. One of the largest companies in the sector is PT Serasi Autoraya (SERA). The subsidiary company of PT Astra International Tbk, SERA is renowned for Indonesia’s biggest transportation and logistics solutions.

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SERA which initially provided solutions to vehicle rental has become the largest, leading provider in transportation industry. With its over than 33 years of experience, SERA has been innovating to provide effective, efficient, and high-quality logistics services through SERA Logistic (SELOG).

SELOG is here to serve the customers’ needs in end-to-end logistics through diverse services. Including Contract Logistics, Shipping Services, Shipping Agency, Freight Forwarding, Warehouse and Yard Management, and Courier Services.